Where does “requestar” come from?

requestar (Portuguese) comes from Catalan -ar, from Latin -āris, from Latin -ālis, from Proto-Italic -ālis — forms relational adjectives.

requestar (Portuguese): to ask, beg; to court, woo

Definitions

  1. to ask, beg; to court, woo

Ancestry of “requestar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Catalan-ar-ar; Used to form nouns indicating where a given...
2Latin-ārisfirst conjugation
3Latin-ālis—
4Proto-Italic-ālisforms relational adjectives
Every word from Proto-Italic -ālis →Every word from Latin -ālis →Every word from Latin -āris →